Elections ain't holy, they ain't divine, and there's nothing sacred about them.
All they are is an outlet for people, most of whom know very little about economics, foreign relations, or really any public policy... to hypothetically have a say in how others live their lives so that mob's wishes can be enforced at gunpoint by the largest gang in the nation, justified by nothing other than crowd size.
If human nature is flawed and sinful, it's no wonder democracy favors demagoguery.
All democracy is, in the words of Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard". The best defense of it comes from Churchill, who repeated that "democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time".
Most people rightly want elections free and fair, transparent and honest, all that. But the state should not be a religion, politicians ain't priests, voting is not a sacrament, and describing any of this with holy terms is profane.
The state is, at best, a necessary evil, not any God worth worship.